# 民法 / Civil Code — 第七百八十三条 (Article 783) - Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号 - English title "Civil Code": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第七百八十三条 (Article 783)（胎児又は死亡した子の認知） — address `art-783` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-783 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-783 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七百八十三条（胎児又は死亡した子の認知） — (Acknowledging Parentage of an Unborn Child or a Child Who Has Died) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-783 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-783 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-783 **第一項** 父は、胎内に在る子でも、認知することができる。この場合においては、母の承諾を得なければならない。 art-783/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-783/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-783/par-1 A father may acknowledge paternity even if the child is still in utero. The mother's consent must be obtained in such a case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の子が出生した場合において、第七百七十二条の規定によりその子の父が定められるときは、同項の規定による認知は、その効力を生じない。 art-783/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-783/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-783/par-2 If the child referred to in the preceding paragraph is born and the father of the child is determined pursuant to the provisions of Article 772, the acknowledgment under that paragraph does not take effect. machine translation, not official **第三項** 父又は母は、死亡した子でも、その直系卑属があるときに限り、認知することができる。この場合において、その直系卑属が成年者であるときは、その承諾を得なければならない。 art-783/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-783/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-783/par-3 A father or mother may acknowledge parentage even if the child has died, but only if that child had a lineal descendant. In such a case, the consent of the lineal descendant must be obtained if that lineal descendant is an adult. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-783/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第七百八十三条第一項 (Article 783, paragraph (1)), art-783/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-783/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-783/par-1 - art-783/par-2: 第七百七十二条 → 民法 第七百七十二条 (Article 772), art-772 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-772 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-772 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第七百八十三条第二項（胎児又は死亡した子の認知） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-783/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-783/par-2 - 民法 第七百八十六条第一項（認知の無効の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-786/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-786/par-1 - 民法 附則第五条第一項（胎児の認知及び認知の無効に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/suppl-5041-102/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/suppl-5041-102/art-5/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4275/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-003, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11